The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... several talents united , and that too in as great perfection as others possess them singly . Your enemies acknowledge this great extent in your lordship's cha- racter , at the same time that they use their utmost industry and in ...
... several talents united , and that too in as great perfection as others possess them singly . Your enemies acknowledge this great extent in your lordship's cha- racter , at the same time that they use their utmost industry and in ...
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... several letters , with accounts of many private lives cast into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremaster's Journal , and among several others a very curious piece , intitled , The Journal of a Mohock ...
... several letters , with accounts of many private lives cast into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremaster's Journal , and among several others a very curious piece , intitled , The Journal of a Mohock ...
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... several matches offered me for these ten years last paft , and have at present warm applications made to me by a very pretty fellow . As I am at my own disposal , I come up to town every winter , and pass my time • in it after the ...
... several matches offered me for these ten years last paft , and have at present warm applications made to me by a very pretty fellow . As I am at my own disposal , I come up to town every winter , and pass my time • in it after the ...
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... several nations in the world so very barbarous as not to have any looking - glasses among them ; and that he had lately read a voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a ...
... several nations in the world so very barbarous as not to have any looking - glasses among them ; and that he had lately read a voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a ...
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... several occurences that arife in it , founds , upon the above - mentioned circumftance , the first part of the fifth book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve still asleep , with an unusual discomposure in her looks . The posture , in ...
... several occurences that arife in it , founds , upon the above - mentioned circumftance , the first part of the fifth book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve still asleep , with an unusual discomposure in her looks . The posture , in ...
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Adam Æneid agreeable alſo angels anſwer appear beautiful becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs cauſe character chearfulness confider confideration converſation defire deſcribed deſcription deſign diſcourſe endeavour eſteem eyes faid fame fays feveral fince firſt parents fome foon fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n Homer honour houſe humble fervant imagination inſtances itſelf juſt lady laſt leſs live look mankind manner maſter Menippus Milton mind miſtreſs Mohocks moſt myſelf nature neſs never night obſerve occafion Ovid paffion particular paſſage paſſed paſſion perſon pleaſed pleaſure poem poet preſent raiſe reader reaſon repreſented reſpect riſe ſame ſays ſcene ſchool ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir ROGER ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR ſpeculation ſpeech ſpirit ſtage ſtate ſtill ſtory ſubject ſuch ſurpriſe tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion uſe verſe Virg virtue whole whoſe